How to Get a Vietnam Visa for Israeli Passport Holders 2026

We are a private visa service, not the Vietnamese government or an embassy. The Vietnam Immigration Department decides every visa. You can always apply for an e-visa yourself on the official portal evisa.gov.vn for the government fee only. Facts checked in November 2026.

Do Israeli passport holders need a visa for Vietnam?

Yes. Israel does not appear on Vietnam’s visa exemption lists, so an ordinary Israeli passport needs a visa for every mainland trip. The exceptions open to all travellers are listed in the Vietnam visa requirements for Israeli citizens.

Which Vietnam visa should Israeli passport holders get?

On our form, Israeli passports are in price group 5. That changes what we can offer you:

There is no visa on arrival through our service for Israeli passports, so a holiday means the e-visa. For a trip of two or three weeks, a 30-day single-entry e-visa is enough. Choose a 90-day multiple-entry e-visa for a longer stay or a tour that also takes in Cambodia, Laos or Thailand.

How to apply for the Vietnam e-visa on evisa.gov.vn, step by step

1. Check that your passport, not a laissez-passer, runs at least 30 days past the end of the e-visa, then take a portrait and scan the data page.
2. Fill in evisa.gov.vn with your name in the Latin letters of your passport’s machine-readable lines.
3. Pay by card, enter your bank’s one-time code and note the e-Visa app no.
4. Count 3 Vietnamese working days from Monday: a Sunday application in Israel waits until the Vietnamese week starts.
5. When the portal shows “Approved”, download, check and print the e-visa.

The full form and the portal’s photo checks with their error messages are explained once in a separate guide to the portal, and the status list in our Vietnam e-visa status guide. This page covers only the Israeli specifics.

Tips for Israeli passport holders

• One-year passports. The Consulate General of Israel in San Francisco, for example, issues a one-year passport to citizens who have not been to Israel in the last 10 years. With a 90-day e-visa plus the portal’s 30-day margin, such a passport can be too short, so renew it first if needed.
• Laissez-passer. Israel also issues travel documents of this kind (Embassy of Israel in Switzerland). The portal lists “Others” as a passport type, but ask the Embassy of Vietnam in Tel Aviv before applying on one.
• Hebrew names. Use the exact Latin spelling of the machine-readable lines, not the one on your flight booking or bank card.
• Phone. 972, a hyphen, and your number without its first 0.
• A European passport as well. German, French, Italian or Spanish passports give 45 days for any purpose, and Polish, Czech, Hungarian or Dutch passports 45 days for tourism (Resolutions 44/NQ-CP and 229/NQ-CP); Portuguese, Austrian and Greek passports do not. Travel on one passport only: an e-visa for the Israeli passport cannot be used with the other. If you also have Vietnamese citizenship, ask the Embassy which passport to use.
• Direct flights. Arkia has flown Tel Aviv to Hanoi non-stop since 5 January 2026 (Vietnam Government News), and Arkia and El Al announced more routes to Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi from October 2026. All land at airports, and in practice, an e-visa for an airport works at any international airport, but not at a land border or seaport.

Checking your status

The portal’s search asks for the e-Visa app no., your email and date of birth; alternatively, use our e-visa status page. If nothing has moved and you fly soon, see expediting a Vietnam visa from Israel; for an application you filed yourself, we can also speed it up.

Common Vietnam e-visa mistakes for Israeli citizens and how to avoid them

• A different Latin spelling of a Hebrew name from the one in the passport.
• A one-year passport that ends less than 30 days after the e-visa.
• Applying on one passport and flying on another when you hold two.
• Planning a business trip through us: group 5 has no business e-visa on our form; apply yourself or ask the Embassy.

For the slips nobody is immune to, see the evisa.gov.vn form guide and Vietnam e-visa mistakes.

Apply through visa-vietnam.hk

Our online form asks for each traveller’s name, sex, date of birth, passport number and expiry and two images, plus one email for the order; the rest of the official application is filled in from the passport scan. You upload your portrait and passport scan as they are. Our team adjusts the size, crop and background to the official technical specifications of the government portal. We never change your appearance.

Through us, Israeli passports can get a tourist e-visa for 30 or 90 days, one entry or several, from 4 working days down to 2 working hours, with VIP Arrival Support at the airport as an option. Our form has no business e-visa and no visa on arrival for group 5. Payment: PayPal (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover) or Alipay.

Our prices and order-by times in Israel time

Israel is 5 hours behind Vietnam in winter (25 October 2026 to 25 March 2027) and 4 hours behind from 26 March 2027, when its clocks go forward (Ynetnews, 22 October 2026). Group 5 cut-offs are later in the day than group 3, so most fall in the Israeli morning. Each price is for one traveller and a 30-day single-entry tourist e-visa, government fee included:

• Mornings work: for example, in winter, the 09:00 Israel time slot catches the afternoon processing, and the last 2-hour slot closes at 10:15.
• Your Sunday is a Vietnamese weekend day; Friday, on the other hand, is a normal working day in Vietnam.
• Weekends and Vietnamese public holidays: email our partner at info@vietnamimmigration.org. Other fast routes: Vietnam urgent visa service.

Status and support. Applied through us? Email us and we will tell you the status; customer email support is 24/7.

Refund. If Vietnam Immigration refuses your e-visa, we refund 95% of your payment (the 5% PayPal transaction fee is not refundable), under our refund policy. There is no refund when the refusal is due to a past violation of Vietnamese law or an overstay.

Applying at the Vietnamese Embassy in Tel Aviv

Vietnam has one office in Israel, its Embassy in Tel Aviv. You need it for a work visa or another category the e-visa does not cover, or for the 5-year visa exemption certificate. Its website (checked 12 November 2026) gives:

• No published visa procedure or hours. Call or email before going, to agree the visa type, documents, fee and time.
• Fees: on 10 November 2026 the Embassy posted Circular 163/2026/TT-BTC, under which a single-entry visa is USD 25, a multiple-entry visa of up to 3 months USD 50 and a visa for a child under 14 USD 25. For urgent processing, ask the embassy or consulate for its official fee.
• Documents from Israel: its notice of 11 September 2026 explains that, since Vietnam joined the Apostille Convention, a public document from a country where the Convention is in force needs an apostille rather than consular legalisation. Ask which procedure applies to yours.

Visa on arrival approval letter

Our service does not offer the visa on arrival for Israeli passports. Order the e-visa through us instead: you can stay up to 90 days, with one entry or several, and at the airport you walk straight to passport control without a stop at the visa counter or a stamping fee in cash.

Before you fly

Keep a printed copy of the e-visa with your passport. The pre-arrival declaration is mandatory for foreign travellers at every international airport in Vietnam. Complete it for free on prearrival.immigration.gov.vn before you leave home, up to 3 days before you land, because Wi-Fi and mobile data at the arrival airport can be slow. The Embassy in Tel Aviv’s notice of 19 June 2026 also calls it mandatory, for arrivals at Tan Son Nhat and Phu Quoc.

What to expect at the airport, at customs and on the way out is in the Vietnam visa requirements for Israeli citizens, with the arrival steps in the entry procedure guide.

For travel agencies, tour operators and companies

Do you take tour groups from Israel to Vietnam? We handle tourist e-visas for whole groups. Email us at info@visa-vietnam.hk with your expected number of travellers per month to receive our partner rates.

FAQ: how to get a Vietnam visa for Israeli passport holders

Can Israelis apply for the Vietnam e-visa?

Yes, like every other nationality since August 2023, for up to 90 days with one entry or several.

How do I write my Hebrew name on the form?

In the Latin letters printed on the machine-readable lines of your passport, with no other spelling.

Is a one-year Israeli passport enough?

Only if it is still valid at least 30 days after the e-visa ends, as the portal’s FAQ requires.

Can I get a business e-visa through you?

No. For Israeli passports our form offers the tourist e-visa only; apply yourself on evisa.gov.vn or ask the Embassy in Tel Aviv.

Does Vietnam have an embassy in Israel?

Yes, in Tel Aviv, in the Beit Amot Mishpat building on Sderot Sha’ul HaMelech. With no opening hours online, phone +972 3 527 5452 or send an email first.

Sources read on 12 November 2026: the Embassy of Vietnam in Tel Aviv, its pre-arrival notice of 19 June 2026, the Consulate General of Israel in San Francisco, the Embassy of Israel in Switzerland, Vietnam Government News on the first direct route, VietNamNet on Arkia, Bao Quoc Te on El Al, Ynetnews on the clock change, evisa.gov.vn; Resolutions 44/NQ-CP and 229/NQ-CP; Circular 163/2026/TT-BTC; Official Letter 1474/CACK-TSN; our Apply form. Rules change, so check the official sources before you travel.